NOWHERAKI BURNS

Adds a new unit and Tour of Duty campaign based on Crisis Troop Scorch from the Black Powder | Red Earth® book series and 28mm tabletop wargame.
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

• One new playable unit: Crisis Troop Scorch, a 30-man light infantry force part of Cold Harbor, an American PMC
• Custom troop and commander voice lines (AI-generated, based on actors from the game BPRE: 8-Bit War)
• Lore-accurate firearms and accessories with unique icons, models, and sound effects
• Comprehensively changed utility gear: new grenades, breaching equipment, and drones available at the player’s disposal
• 30 unique, fully fleshed-out doctrines
• A new Tour of Duty campaign with custom maps and enemies: experience brutal combat in compound raids against jihadist militias and mercenaries in the deserts of North Africa

NOWHERAKI BURNS has no dependencies except the base game.

Additional content can be found via the following mods:

• Different torso cosmetics can be purchased and equipped if either In-Game Camouflage Selector or Trooper Toolbox is installed and enabled.

  Your game may not function properly if IGCS and TT are both enabled at the same time.

• CLOSE COMBAT OVERHAUL is a companion mod for NOWHERAKI BURNS that adds shaders, icons, and text from BPRE: Awbari.

  CLOSE COMBAT OVERHAUL is not compatible with other visual overhaul mods, such as those that change the color of the NVG filter, fog of war, etc.

Nowheraki is burning. Nothing, and no one, can stop it.

With Islamist terrorism and insurgency overwhelming the nation, its state intelligence agency, the Directorate of Security, enlists the help of Cold Harbor: an American private military firm with billion-dollar contracts providing protection details, foreign internal defense, and kinetic action plans to states around the globe.

Cold Harbor promptly stands up Crisis Troop Scorch, a professional light infantry force, to combat terrorism within Nowheraki by undertaking direct action raids against insurgent strongholds and areas of interest.

Recruiting third-country nationals exclusively from special operations and intelligence backgrounds, every Scorch assaulter is a highly skilled warfighter led by the best boots-on-the-ground commanders money can buy. Equipped with the latest gear and equipment available, Scorch raiding parties are highly lethal and nearly unmatched on the battlefield.

Based on the BPRE: Awbari 28mm wargame, the Qasran Border Clades campaign features procedurally generated missions replicating the tabletop board layouts and custom enemies based on the Aayari Network fighters and Hongbin mercenaries depicted in the game. Take the role of Crisis Troop Scorch as a mercenary force for the Awbarian intelligence agency, the NDI.

Conduct cross-border raids into the autonomous "border clades" of the desert settlements separating the North African nations of Awbari and Qasra, destroying the ruling Aayari Network’s outposts and compounds used to push terrorists into Awbari. Eliminate the mercenaries of the Hongbin Alloy Company—a front for the Chinese MSS—to slow the exploitation of Awbari’s rare earth metals.

The Aayari Network’s militia fighters are unflinching, hardline jihadists armed with grenades, rockets, and suicide bombs; and be prepared for unforgiving fights against Hongbin’s mercenaries, who are experienced Chinese, Syrian, and North Korean combat veterans with serious fighting prowess.

Developers:
Pepperbox – Scripter, writer, 2D artist
StatusImaginary – 2D/3D artist, animator
Alex – Scripter, writer
Briz – 3D artist
Damnedberet – 2D artist
Luminarity – Map creator, video producer
Visceral – VFX artist, video producer

Other credits and contributors:
Sinatra_Fall – 3D asset help; advising
Thezerotrooper – Permission to use 2D art
Moriarty – Permission to use 2D art
Fluffy – Permission to use code
Jeu de Tarot – Permission to use code
Fizz – Modding advice; permission to use 3D assets
Eyyy – Modding advice; permission to use code from Eyyy’s Rangers Rebalance
Olem – Permission to use 3D assets from Project ARES
Dboy – Permission to use 3D assets from IOV
Levan – Permission to use 2D assets from Task Force Toro, Fallschirmjägerzug, and Project ARES
Chad – Permission to use 3D assets from United States Armed Forces
Isaglish – Permission to use SFX from Realistic Sounds and Sound Overhaul

Josh Taylor – Art from Black Powder | Red Earth®
Jon Chang and Echelon Software – Creators of the Black Powder | Red Earth® franchise
https://blackpowderredearth.com/

Sunshine – Creator of the original Black Powder | Red Earth® mod that inspired this project

This mod uses sound effects from Insurgency: Sandstorm, Squad, Intravenous 2, and other sources.

Random Mission Generation:
The Aayari Network and Hongbin Mercenaries will appear as possible enemies in the vanilla Mission Generator and cannot be disabled. If you do not want to fight these enemies while playing randomly generated missions, disable NOWHERAKI BURNS and restart the game.

Misleading Injury Zones:
All explosives in this mod (except thermobaric munitions and explosive charges) will project shrapnel that may kill targets standing inside the stated injury radius. Don’t throw frags and rockets at mission-critical objectives!

AI Disclaimer:
Speech synthesis AI (ElevenLabs) was used to generate the voice lines for this mod, based on audio from BPRE: 8-Bit War. No other AI was used in the creation of this mod. Everything else included was created by a real person on the team or otherwise listed in the credits.

Unknown yet.

No.

It is entirely up to the developers of those mods to release and maintain patches adding compatibility with this mod.

If you list this mod as a dependency, yes.

No. Original assets created for this mod are not permitted for use in other mods. We also cannot grant permission to use assets that were sourced from other creators.

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